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earthware pot with cover14.02.2101
- Clay; Pottery
- High aesthetic value
- Functional household item
White large strip woven tablecloth10.01.2099
- Cotton
- Excellent overall condition
- New never used
Embroidered tablecloth from Chad10.05.2098
- Cotton
- Excellent overall condition
- New never used
This tablecloth was made in the 1980's by a missionary station in Chad and represents rock engravings of the Tibesti. The fabric is made of two large strips of white raw cotton.
Embroidered tablecloth from Chad10.05.2097
- Cotton
- Excellent overall condition
- New never used
This tablecloth was made in the 1980's by a missionary station in Chad and represents rock engravings of the Tibesti. The fabric is made of two large strips of white raw cotton.
Indigo strip woven short10.05.2096
- Cotton
- New never used
2 men's vest from Turkey11.07.2095
- Cotton
- Needs to be washed
Men's vest11.07.2094
- Cotton
- New never used
Polyester and cotton lining. Size L 44
Richly embroidered vest from Tajikistan11.03.2093
- Cotton
- New never used
- High aesthetic value
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
Indigo embroidered girl's dress10.05.2092
- Cotton
- New never used
Handwoven cotton shirt10.05.2091
- Cotton
- New never used
- Needs to be washed
Hand woven cotton shirt10.05.2090
- Cotton
- New never used
A handwoven cotton shirt with cowries decorations from West Africa.
African embroidered shirt10.05.2089
- Cotton
- New never used
- Needs to be washed
African embroidered shirt10.05.2088
- Cotton
- New never used
African embroidered shirt10.05.2087
- Cotton
- New never used
Men's Indigo ceremonial cloth10.05.2086
- Cotton
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Excellent overall condition
- Museum quality (worthy to be added to a museum’s permanent collection)
Over-sized men's clothing equates to importance. Such Indigo robes with traditional embroidery indicative of high status of the bearer. The triangular knife pattern and the calligraphic spiral rosette may have an underlying protective symbolism
A complete set from a West African handloom10.09.2085
- Cotton
- Wood
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
Together with pulleys and shuttle boat this forms a complete handloom, except the chassis.
String heddles10.09.2084
- Wood
- Cotton
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
The heddles are rectangular devices consisting of two resilient sticks on the top and the other down they are joined by fine strings with loops in the middle of each string. The wrap passes through the loops.
Three spindles 10.09.2083
- Wood
- Excellent overall condition
- New never used
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
Women use spindles to spin the raw cotton into yarn, which then is woven on a handloom
Adinkra stamps10.09.2082
- Gourds, calabashes
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
- Functional tool
- High aesthetic value
This two stamps date back to 1970, there are somewht different from the more recent ones below.
Cotton Spun10.09.2081
- Cotton
- Wood
- Can be delivered with stand (extra costs)
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
Spinning is performed with natural wooden spindles, and the thread is then wound up on a wooden spun. This is a thread made of local cotton from Benin or Nigeria.
Shuttle boats from West African Handloom10.09.2080
- Wood
- Cotton
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
- Functional tool
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
Three suttle boats of different size, one with a cotton spun. Nice old decorative items with the original patina.
Two heddle pulleys10.09.2079
- Wood
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
- Functional tool
Two wooden heddle pulley from a handloom
Heddle Pulley from West-African Handloom10.09.2078
- Wood
- Iron
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
- Functional household item
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
A wooden pulley of a traditional handloom from Benin.
Three hand carved wooden tampons for wax prints10.09.2076
- Wood
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
- High aesthetic value
- Functional tool
Along the West African coast wax resist are applied with hand-carved wooden stamps (tampons). Our material has been collected in the 1970ties in Nigeria (Ibadan) and Benin. Item 10.09.2074 shows a cloth ready for dying with wax applied by tampon with bird motif.
Three hand carved wooden tampons for wax prints10.09.2075
- Wood
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
Along the West African coast wax resist are applied with hand-carved wooden stamps (tampons). Our material has been collected in the 1970ties in Nigeria (Ibadan) and Benin.
Wax stamped cloth before dying10.09.2074
- Cotton
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
Industriel cotton fabric, wax stamped with a bird motif. See also stamp No 10.09 2076. The cloth is now ready for dying.
Reed-beeters of a West African loom10.09.2073
- Wood
- Bamboo
- Cotton
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Excellent overall condition
- Functional tool
An important part of the West African handloom is the reed or beater. The size of the reed determines the width of strip to be woven. The beater is rectangular in shape, built of two fine strips of bamboo with holes cut at each end, joined by reeds. The reed is suspended by two strings from a beam across the top of the loom.
Spun of cotton thread10.09.2072
- Cotton
- Wood
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
- Functional tool
Spinning is performed with natural wooden spindles, and the thread is then wound up on a wooden spun. This is a thread made of local cotton from Benin or Nigeria.
Zinc stencil for "aire eleko" cloth10.09.2071
- Metal
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Functional tool
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
Stencil cut out of a zinc panel and then chiselled with a star and flower motif. The surface is then coated with cassava starch, using the stencil. Starch is only applied to one side of the cloth. The starch resist technique is used with a cold indigo dye-bath. Repeated immersion is required and great care is taken, not to crack the resist.